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Clear what he's disputing. short time ago, ben smith spoke to our colleague, chris hayes. >> we went to them 24 hours ago and, you know, they declined to comment on it. obviously the special counsel prefers to control the time line and for reasonable reasons wants to operate on his own time line and without revealing a lot of detail. >> smith also told rachel maddow that buzzfeed sources continue to stand by their information. rudy giuliani also weighed in tonight sending this message on twitter. quote, i commend bob mueller's office for correcting the buzzfeed false story that president trump...

We don't know yet. it certainly puts the story in a gray area. the facts are in gray. we'll eventually find out whether or not trump directed cohen to lie is a fact or not. but right now it's in a gray area and trump is acting like it's a definitive thing. he's cheering on the special counsel. what will that look like if down the line the special counsel comes out with evidence that is not to his liking? he is propping this up as a way to shoot down another enemy. in previous times he's called the special counsel like 13 angry democrats. he's acting like he's exonerated. he's exonerated maybe ...

Was collusion. >> think about how much their argument has changed. it went from there were no contacts with russians to there was no collusion with russians to we tried to collude, to collusion is not a crime. if it goes on, rudy's going to say it's not jail, it's a gated community. isn't a crime. if this keeps going rudy will be telling trump it's not jail, it's a gated community. >> seth meyers gets tonight's last word. "the 11th hour" starts right now. tonight, a rare public statement from the special counsel pushing back on last night's explosive buzzfeed news report. robert mueller's of...

Implication, you kept hearing if this is true, if this is true quickly followed by discussion of impeachment. given that as a possible factor in the special counsel's office breaking its silence and given that buzzfeed is not backing down from this story and is, in fact, challenging the special counsel's office to reveal more, do you think it's possible we will hear more from mueller's office or will this be it? >> i don't think they'll say anything else on the record. i think what you'll see is probably them talking to other reporters on background and knocking down the original buzzfeed stor...

From cohen on the status of the project. buzzfeed also said that according to its sources, quote, the special counsel's office learned about trump's directive for cohen to lie to congress through interviews with multiple witnesses from the trump organization and internal company e-mails, text messages, and a cache of other documents. earlier today trump lawyer rudy giuliani pushed back on the buzzfeed story. tonight, the special counsel's office made a very rare move of issuing a public statement. it reads, quote, buzzfeed's description of specific statements to the special counsel's office an...